The porn star and the CIA chief: Sex, money, and Clearasil

Every day is a weird day on the Anchor Desk, and the Spring of the Anchor Desk is no exception. Here’s the proof:

A: One is often spied screwing on film and the other screwed up spy film

Q: Who are Ron Jeremy and George Tenet?

TMZ reports that the legendary Sasquatch of porn and the embattled former CIA chief — who bungled a lot of pre-911 intelligence and now puts the blame elsewhere — went to high school together. Click the link to read more and see their high school yearbook photos.

My bet is that it’s this Iron Curtain version of “Winnie the Pooh.” The blog Quixoticals theorizes (and I agree) that this is the story where Pooh eats too much of Rabbit’s honey and gets caught in the doorway.

The ‘toon is 10 minutes long, the animation is crappy and it makes no sense. Pooh sounds like the late Boris Yeltsin. Rabbit, I think is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Ministry of Carrots. And Piglet represents a party apparatchik who’s there to inform on Pooh to the KGB. At least there’s no foppish Christopher Robin to creep out the kids. Enjoy!

Check out the comments on Quixoticals for some more detail. My feeling is that the Soviet power structure was weakened when the beloved children’s story, which takes place in a beautiful sylvan wonderful, was made to look like it took place in a pipe yard in the tiny province of Smolensk in the Ukraine. Angered children and parents began the process of revolt and carried the ball down to the 1. Then Ronald Reagan carried it over for the score. I have no proof of any of that, by the way.

A computer ate my magazine

Losing any work to a malfunctioning computer is the opposite of funny. But when it happens to a tech-themed business magazine, it’s funny as hell.

I wrote yesterday about the ingenious plan to distribute the binary code used to crack blue-ray and high def DVDs via Flickr photos. As you were reading that, the guys who invented the encryption process told Digg — a social community of geeks and other tech-savvy folks who share thoughts, stories, etc — to take down the hack. Digg did. Users posted it again. Digg took it down again. Users posted it again. Digg took it down again, and so on, and so on. An e-riot erupted among Digg users. Finally, the site’s owners caved and decided to take their chances with lawyers rather than lose users.

• Ex-shock jock Don Imus is going to file a lawsuit over his termination. If he prevails, he could win $40 million. Link

• A New Jersey politician has apologized for e-mailing jokes deemed racist and sexist to friends, at least one of whom didn’t agree and provided copies to local media. Link

• When Gustavo Arellano writes the wildly popular “Ask A Mexican” column, it’s very funny. It wouldn’t be funny if Bob Smith, John Doe or Roy Bragg did it. Well, it would probably be funny if I did it, but I’d never do it. The distinction, I think, is that white guys can make fun of other white guys. A white guy can safely write things such as “rich, inbred, Old Money twits,” or “beer-swilling, banjo-playing, trailer park hicks,” or “Miracle Whip-eating, Dockers-wearing, suburban dullards,” but should steer clear of other ethnic or religious groups. Link

From Jimmy Kimmel Live

This is an old episode of “This Week In Unnecessary Censorship,” in which Kimmel’s staff bleeps G-rated film clips and makes them appear to be dirty. (via Cynical-C)

Are you a conservative? Are you sitting down?

A Washington Times columnist suggests that Hilary Clinton might the only hope for Republicans in the 2008 presidential race. And Bruce Bartlett isn’t kidding. Sen. Clinton has been “the treacherous Goldstein” for Republicans since her husband first ran for president. This seed change, at least in the minds of some conservatives, is pretty amazing.

It happened again. Freakonomics reports that the killer in the Michigan mall shooting spree was identified as David W. Logsdon. Yes, the “W” stands for “Wayne.” This “Wayne” thing isn’t idle speculation. This is money in the bank. There have been plenty of murderers, including some really famous ones, with “Wayne” as their middle name. Many are listed at the News of the Weird site. And I’d like to add Juan Corona, who killed 25 California farm workers, to that list because “Juan” sounds a little bit like “Wayne.”